NTFRS 13552/13555 on a single DC.

Inherited a bit of a mess here....  I have one DC that has been in this condition for as far back as the logs go, which is 10/17/2015.  I found the following article:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/2986364/event-id-13552-and-13555-are-logged-in-the-file-replication-service-lo

Since I have another DC with a clean ntfrs, I assume I would just want to perform steps 6 - 10 on the problematic DC?  Is it really necessary to delete all those files manually, or can I just stop ntfrs, set burflag D2, and start ntfrs to recover from this?

Thanks!